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Is anyone researching or have more information on the MacLean-Garvie connection?
Garvie family tradition suggests that the Garvies of Perthshire "are descended from John Garbh, seventh Maclean of Coll, through one of his sons, probably John of Totaronald."
It is said John was wounded at the Battle of Inverkeithing, Fifeshire (1651) and did not return to Coll. His three sons (or grandsons) rented Upper Balgarvie, Lower Balgarvie and the Mill of Balgarvie in the Perthshire, Parish of Scone from the Earl of Mansfield.
In "Agents of Change, Scots in Poland 1800-1918" by Mona Kedslie McLeod (Tuckwell Press ISN#1 86232 081 0 ) page 116 we find...
"The Garvie brothers were descended from the Macleans of Coll. Backing the wrong side in the first Jacobit Rising of 1689, they forteited their lands, adopted their nickname 'garbh', the Gaelic for rough or strong, and moved to Perthshire in search of a living. By the end of the eighteenth centruy Perth had become one of the centres of the developing linen industry and was enjoying a building boom..."
Any suggestions?
Should any Garvies be in a DNA programme please check for any MacLean correlations too. And let us know what comes up!
Colin Garvie
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